By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Neema Estores
Photos = Neema Estores, Korean Cultural Center inward the Philippines, DMZ Docs
“In our generation, nosotros don’t know Korea every bit one,” said Jero Yun (윤재호), manager of the cinema “Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman” (마담 B) (2016) on the start solar daytime of the DMZ Docs Korean Film Festival inward the Philippines.
The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was established inward 1953 when the United Nations, the North Korean regular army in addition to the mainland Chinese regular army signed an armistice agreement. The DMZ serves every bit the edge that divides Democratic People's Republic of Korea in addition to South Korea. The DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, too known every bit "DMZ Docs," which started inward 2009, presents documentaries on diverse themes in addition to styles that advocate peace, coexistence in addition to reconciliation.
The Event
Seven internationally-acclaimed documentaries from Republic of Korea were presented inward the Philippine leg of the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, from May xi to thirteen at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. The DMZ Docs Korean Film Festival is hosted yesteryear the Korean Cultural Center inward the Philippines, inward partnership alongside the University of the Philippines Korea Research Center. It's purpose of the 9th Annual DMZ International Documentary Film Festival inward Korea to hold upward held from September 21 to 28 inward Goyang in addition to Paju City inward Korea this year.
The Documentaries
🔺 Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman (마담 B)
Director: Jero Yun (윤재호)
Year: 2016
Mrs. B, a married adult woman in addition to woman nurture of 2 sons, crosses the Chinese edge to brand a living, but ends upward existence sold to a Chinese farmer. To back upward the household unit of measurement she left dorsum inward North Korea, she starts to smuggle people.
🔺 My Love Don’t Cross that River (님아, 그 강을 건너지 마오)
Director: Jin Mo-yeong (진모영)
Year: 2014
The cinema is close the elderly pair of Jo Byeong-man in addition to Kang Kye-yeol who bring lived together for to a greater extent than than 75 years. Despite living together for in addition to thence long, they are nevertheless passionate for each other in addition to alive quite happily.
🔺 Planet of Snail (달팽이의 별)
Director: Yi Seung-jun (이승준)
Year: 2012
This cinema covers the even out of Young-chan, a deaf in addition to blind author who is married to a adult woman alongside a spinal deformity named Soon-ho. Although existence differently able, the 2 demo that they move ane through communication in addition to love.
🔺 The Emotional Society on Stage (감정의 시대: 서비스 노동의 관계미학)
Directors: Kim Sook-hyun (김숙현) in addition to Cho Hye-jeong (조혜정)
Year: 2014
This cinema exposes the hardships a worker encounters at operate in addition to the terrible working weather condition of the service manufacture every bit they are forced to tolerate existence humiliated.
🔺 Red Maria (레드 마리아)
Director: Kyung-soon (경순)
Year: 2011
This cinema covers the lives of dissimilar women living inward Japan, the Philippines in addition to Korea. The cinema follows the lives of a mother, a prostitute, a part-time worker, an immigrant worker in addition to an former adult woman who had been forced into sexual slavery yesteryear Imperial Nippon many years ago.
🔺 Summer Days inward Bloom (옥탑방열기)
Directors: Go U-jung (고유정) in addition to Roh Eun-ji (노은지)
Year: 2012
This cinema tells the even out of 2 men infected yesteryear HIV in addition to AIDS. Doo-yeol, subsequently discovering that he is infected, hides himself. Gabriel, his partner, fights for LGBT rights in addition to for the rights of people infected alongside HIV in addition to AIDS.
🔺 Troublers (불온한 당신)
Director: Lee Young (이영)
Year: 2015
The LGBT community inward Korea is frequently perceived yesteryear conservative people every bit existence a "danger" to the nation’s safety, hereafter in addition to full general well-being. This cinema follows Lee Young, a documentary filmmaker who is openly lesbian, every bit she researches an before generation of gays in addition to lesbians inward Korea.
The Film Festival's Discussion Session
Director Jero Yun met alongside the audience subsequently “Mrs. B., H5N1 North Korean Woman” was screened. He answered questions regarding his cinema in addition to shared his promise of seeing Korea reunited every bit one. He ended the session yesteryear saying, “I tin quaff alongside a North Korean. I don’t bring a occupation alongside that, but the arrangement doesn't give me the chance. It makes it into a complicated situation.”
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